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Steve Weissman

Former BBC investigative journalist Steve Weissman is at work on a book, “Big Money: How Global Banks, Corporations, and Speculators Rule and How to Break Their Hold.” Follow his blog at http://open.www.salon.com/blog/sweissman/.

Mitt Romney (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Romney’s overseas tour: The scary part

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(AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A crisis worse than 2008?

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Timothy Geithner (right) and Ben Bernanke attend a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council in Washington in April. (Reuters/Joshua roberts)

Banks’ biggest fraud ever?

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(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Bernanke bails out Europe

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Paul Krugman (AP/Heribert Proepper)

Paul Krugman, European celebrity

Frank Browning, Steve Weissman
President Obama, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande

Obama faces Armageddon

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Francois Hollande (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)

Europe’s dirty secrets

Frank Browning, Steve Weissman
Anders Behring Breivik (Reuters)

Europe’s far right marches on

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Nicolas Sarkozy gestures as he delivers a speech before building trade professionals as part of his campaign in Paris, April 17, 2012. ) (Reuters/POOL)

Sayonara, Sarko!

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Gunter Grass (Reuters/Susana Vera)

Gunter Grass was right

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Egyptian protesters, left, spray burning aerosol over Muslim Brotherhood guards outside the Egyptian parliament. (AP)

The “NGOs” that spooked Egypt

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An activist stands outside a branch of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a clinic which offers abortions, in central London. (Reuters/Andrew Winning)

Abortion war hits Britain

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